Export Desktop Motion Analyzer profiles to Motion Analyzer Online:

User Defined Profile

For: Motion profiles with simple or complex loads and one or more types of motion segments

Best option for exporting a motion profile made of indexes and other motion segment types

Exports load data

1. To export motion profiles from Desktop Motion Analyzer to Motion Analyzer Online using a User

Defined Profile, first open both tools.

2. To import this profile, you first need to create a template to paste your data into. To do so, open

Motion Analyzer Online. From the homepage, select “Start A New Project.”

3. Enter a Project Name and Project Description. Select “Create Project.”

4. Adjust the Ambient Temp and Altitude to match those used in the Desktop Motion Analyzer

profile. See below for directions to find that data. Then select “Go to project.”

To find the ambient temperature and altitude in Desktop Motion Analyzer, open the “Axis View”

from the “Home” tab, open your axis, and select the “Motor” or “Linear Thruster” tab.

5. Select “Create New Axis & Profile.”

6. Select the motion type to match that used in the Desktop Motion Analyzer axis, and select “OK.”

7. Name and define your initial load to match your Desktop Motion Analyzer profile, then select

“Submit.”

To find the initial load, open your axis in Desktop Motion Analyzer. From the Axis View of your

axis, select “Load”, and use the Load Data to define your initial load in Motion Analyzer Online.

8. Select “Save” and then “Export Profile”

9. Save the .xlsx file to a known location, then open it. Minimize it for now.

Minimize Motion Analyzer Online. Do not close it; you will need it later.

10. Open your existing Desktop Motion Analyzer project that you would like to export.

11. For the data to correctly import into Motion Analyzer Online, it has to have the correct units to

match those in the template. Select the “Preferences” tab and select “Units of Measure.”

12. Select “Metric” and then switch “Angular Velocity” to “rad/sec”. Ensure that “Inertia” is set to

“kg/m^2”.

13. From the Group View, select the motion profile icon of the axis profile that you would like to

export.

14. From the Profile view, select “Edit Motion Profile.”

15. Select “Export”

16. Select “Next >”. Then select “User Defined” and “Next >” again

17. Select “Next >”. Select either “Clipboard” or “File”. If you select “File”, save the profile to a

known location and open that file.

18. Open a blank spreadsheet. If you exported the data to the Clipboard, paste everything into the

spreadsheet. If you exported to a file, first open the file. Then select everything, copy it, and

paste it into the spreadsheet.

Of note are the columns “Absolute_Time” and “Absolute_Pos”. Copy the numbers from those

two columns.

19. Open the template that you made earlier and open the “Motion” sheet. Paste the copied data

into cell A2.

20. For the index segments, set each “Segment_type” to “Trapezoidal”. For other segment types,

like an acceleration or dwell, leave the “Segment_type” column blank.

21. For acceleration and dwell segments, enter the Velocity and Smoothness. Velocity can be found

in the “Final_Velocity” column of the exported data. You can find the Smoothness by dividing

the Jerk by 100, for a maximum smoothness of 1.

22. To export the load, open the second sheet in the Template you created. Depending on the type

of load you selected in Motion Analyzer Online, it will be named either “Inertia”, “External Force

or Torque”, or “Friction”, followed by the name you entered for the load.

In the data exported from Desktop Motion Analyzer, find the “Inertia” column. Copy that data

and paste it, along with the Absolute_time, into the load sheet.

Save the file.

Note: Transferring load data Motion Analyzer Online has a new feature that allows sloped changes to a load for motion profiles with more dynamic inertia. This feature differs from Desktop Motion Analyzer, which uses steps for changes in inertia. Because of this new feature, MA Online will interpret inertia data differently than Desktop MA. A load profile in Desktop MA could look like the following example, with steps in between each change.

Each of these changes will appear in MA Online as a point, connected by a line:

To approximate steps, add a point right after each point that steps up to the level of the step. There are two ways to add these additional points. The first involves modifying the data in the Import spreadsheet. Open the import spreadsheet and open the Load sheet.

In the third column, enter the formula “=A3+.001”.

Copy that cell once the formula has worked and paste it down for every time point except the last one.

Skipping the first point, copy the inertia points and paste them next to the new time points. They will all be shifted up one space from where they started.

Move all of those new points to underneath the original points. To do so, only the numbers should be copied, not the formulas that made them. Copy all of the new numbers, then right click on the cell in the A column below all of your existing data, and select “Paste values”. Then delete the data in columns C and D.

Highlight all of the numbers in column A, then sort from smallest to largest.

A prompt will ask to expand the selection. Select “Expand the selection”, then “Sort”. This will anchor the loads to the times.

The result will look similar to the following:

After you save and import the profile (instructions below), the load profile in MA Online should look the same as in Desktop MA:

To add the additional points after already importing the incomplete load profile to MA Online, follow the normal process for adding points to a profile. Click above the shaded area and in between the time lines.

In the “Add Point” prompt, ignore the “Time” field. Set the “Primary Inertia” field to match the inertia of the following point.

Click on the time marker and drag it to the left until it stops against the preceding time marker.

Repeat the process for every change.

23. In a motion profile in Motion Analyzer Online, select “Import Profile”.

24. Select “Replace with an Excel file”. Select “Choose File” and select the spreadsheet that you just

edited. Wait until Motion Analyzer Online uploads it and loads the updated motion profile view.

25. Use the resize arrows to scale the profile.